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The Reflection is the new Stan Lee anime. I liked Heroman but this one seems like it might be very different. It's got a weird, interesting visual style and what might be a plot that's going places. I'm interested. Three years ago, the titular global event happened, killing a bunch of people and leaving the survivors ("Reflected") with random superpowers. The details are a lot of mystery surrounding the event itself, the main heroes, and the agenda of a bunch of shameless supervillains. There's more detail I guess but we'll find out what it all means, probably? Main characters, probably: (Names subject to update)  X-ON Powers: Copies other powers by touch. Mysterious.  Ian "I-Guy" Izett Powers: Converts the sound of voices to kinetic energy, which powers his Iron Man suit. Rock superstar by day, Superman by night. Lives in L.A.  Eleanor Evards Powers: Short range teleporting. Reporter, hacker, following X-On. Honestly the main protagonist so far.  Lisa Livingston Powers: Her wheelchair turns into a giant robot. Wasn't really in the first episode. Seems cool though.  9nine The girl group 9nine, who sing the ending credits, voicing themselves as random civilian girls keeping up with the action from Japan. I dunno what the point is or why they're on the character list. It's on Crunchyroll! Caphi fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Jul 24, 2017 |
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i've been seeing some mixed responses towards this but while i didn't love the first episode, i enjoyed it enough to give it a couple more to see where things go
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Jul 24, 2017 20:18
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This was the only show of the season I had interest in, and the animation and pacing in the first episode was pretty loving bad. I also find it pretty aesthetically off-putting. I like super power shows so I'll give it one more episode
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Jul 26, 2017 06:25
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Relin posted:This was the only show of the season I had interest in, and the animation and pacing in the first episode was pretty loving bad. I also find it pretty aesthetically off-putting. I like super power shows so I'll give it one more episode Yeah, I really wanted to like it but my god it moves slowly. That said, Stan Lee does the next episode title previews, so... Gotta watch those.
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Jul 26, 2017 07:08
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Hahahaha what is this? I hate superheroes even more than shonen fighting animes, why was this so fun? Ya'll are taking this too serious. I was in stitches half the episode. Its like they got america 95% right, but that extra 5% of japan is still floating around and it's fantastic.
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Jul 26, 2017 18:03
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i-guy's kind of great because he's trying so hard to be a flashy, cool super-hero while looking like a clown and playing his favorite 80s music on public speakers as a theme song and messing up his entrances so bad that he has to improv a different name from the one he wanted, and i hope there's more of that
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Jul 26, 2017 19:21
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The crowd chanting "Sky Show" with giant american flags fluttering in the background was too much, I could barely breath. The show invented it's own lovely 80's pop song just so it could have a dorky Ironman force it into his themesong. That is craftsmanship. Did he actually gently caress up his name? I thought he was just positioned wrong to be the "I" when he first flashed it on the billboard.
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Jul 26, 2017 21:46
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I'm pretty sure it's meant to be I-Guy because his superhero alliterative name starts with I's.
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Jul 26, 2017 21:48
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Pavlov posted:I thought he was just positioned wrong to be the "I" when he first flashed it on the billboard. This is a weird show
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Jul 27, 2017 05:21
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I like weird shows sometimes. The first episode of 18if turned me right off, though.
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Jul 27, 2017 05:23
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this show is directed by the same guy as mushishi and aku no hana, so weird, slow, visually experimental stuff is kind of one of his specialties
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Jul 27, 2017 05:36
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Holy poo poo, is one of the characters in this Literal Stan Lee? I also like that Robodork has a team of engineers and control operators like you'd actually want to have.
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Jul 29, 2017 23:07
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Yeah that is certainly Stan Lee. My main complaint is that the action always seems to be moving in slow motion.
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Jul 30, 2017 02:42
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saving that money by reusing a bunch of scenes from episode 1
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Jul 30, 2017 06:50
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Yeah it's a bit cheap. I've always tended to like when something shows you the same series of events from multiple perspectives though, so it still worked for me.
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Jul 30, 2017 15:47
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My favorite part of this show is that the level-of-detail for face rendering is set at "very close" so you constantly get face pop-in as people walk around. And by "favorite" I mean what the gently caress is DEEN even doing?
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Jul 31, 2017 10:53
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It owns that all of I-Guy's stupid fourth wall background effects in the fight were diegetic and deliberately orchestrated by a team of effects hackers.
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God this art style is made for me specifically, thank you, DEEN. The show's hyper-cheap and wears it on its sleeve, but I really dig it. Stuff like seeing i-GUY's fight in his perspective of having the intercom on is the cheapest tactic, but it works so good. Spider-clops is pretty fun, too. Odds are that it won't pan out to be as good as its own mysterious flare is hyping up to, but man, i'll keep watching this thing. Sky High is worth it.
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